Word: ratted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Karpis said he'd never be taken alive," observed John Edgar Hoover, "but we took him without firing a shot. That marked him as a dirty, yellow rat. He was scared to death." This week the House voted to raise Director Hoover's pay from $9,000 to $10,000 per year...
...there in this manger, there in this place, a baby girl was born. I took three witnesses with me, and at the same time we saw four other little babies looking out of iron bars begging Almighty God somehow to get them into the sunlight. They were pallid and rat-eaten, so to speak, and a further description of the synthetic maternity ward was beyond human description...
Pigs eat coal with relish, digest it with ease. As laboratory animals they are therefore incapable of shedding much light on human nutrition. Rats, on the other hand, have the same eating habits as man. They need the same minerals and vitamins, fall prey to many of the same diseases. On them new serums, drugs and poisons are tried out. More experimental work has been done with the white, pink-eyed rat (Mus Norvegicus albinus) than with the meek guinea pig - more, in fact, than with all other mammals combined. If men are ever able to thrive on synthetic food...
...Rose bred his rats from a group originally purchased ten years ago. Most U. S. white rat experimenters, however, get their supply from the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology at University of Pennsylvania. There in specially built steel and concrete buildings, under the watchful eye of Dr. Henry Herbert Donaldson, world authority on Mus Norvegicus albinus, hordes of white rats are fed and pampered as carefully as princelings. For 96 generations the rats have breathed only pure and sterile air. Visitors who might bring in germs are shooed off. Eventually it is hoped that the animals will be wholly...
...escape from the woman's prison is perhaps the most remarkable accomplishment in the whole picture. It takes place during a scream-jag riot fomented by a rat released from its cage, which is a device we should not have thought of ourselves. Instead of jumping into the ocean, as most escape heroines do, Jean Harlow crawls with her two companions through a drainage pipe. And when one of them is shot by a guard, she does not murmur with her last breath, "Good luck, Jean." "Riffraff" is worthy of the highest compliment a critic can give...